Of course you love pretty flowers and growing your favorite veggies. But a garden needs evergreens, too, for year-round color. With thousands of varieties, evergreen shrubs are available in every size ...

We are fortunate to have many broad-leaved evergreen shrubs in the Lowcountry landscape. These ornamental and native shrubs keep their leaves during our relatively mild winters. Some people like to ...

I think most of us, as gardeners, would confess to obsessing over a dahlia or delphinium during summer. And, sure, I get it, a pink cosmos or coneflower is hard to top. But I think we need to give ...

Evergreen shrubs are the backbone of any garden. Over several years working as a professional gardener, I have found that evergreen domes, hedges, and bushes are just as important as flamboyant ...

Some plants require pruning to maintain their shape or control their flower or fruit production. Others, including those that are always green throughout the year, never need to be cut back. In fact, ...

When it comes to landscaping, evergreens are the savvy gardener’s secret to year-round beauty. Unlike fair-weather flowers or deciduous plants that lose their leaves in winter, evergreen shrubs retain ...

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt. Did you return from a European tour of chateau gardens, obsessed with formal knot gardens? Have you ...

When you're out in the yard pruning your trees, you might be tempted to spruce up your evergreens while you're at it, but ...

Do you need a tree for a narrow space? Have you moved lately into a home with a smaller garden and want to plant a tree? Today, there are many trees that will grow quite tall yet stay rather narrow in ...

Lots of families memorialize deceased loved ones with gravesite flowers, especially around holidays such as next week’s Independence Day. Most cemeteries have rules on plants, generally to streamline ...

Michael Connolly, owner of Connolly's Nursery in Evergreen, has been in the horticulture business for over 30 years. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Connolly's Nursery in Evergreen. (Kate Heston/Daily ...

Q: Some of my evergreen shrubs are looking pretty toasty. I don’t think we got below a zone 7 winter though, and these shrubs are supposed to be hardy to that zone. Is something else going on? A: ...